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contribution to Chinese literature

...of the empire—by dwelling on such topics as the low table and the folding screen or on descriptions of the capital cities. But even the best
fu writing, by such masters of the art as
Mei Sheng and Sima Xiangru, bordered on the frivolous and bombastic. Another major
fu writer, Yang Xiong, in the prime of his career remorsefully realized that the genre was a minor craft not...